Dale Brown, LSU's winningest basketball coach, dies at 90 — SkimNews
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- LSU announced Friday that Dale Brown, its winningest basketball coach, died at 90, just over a week before what would have been his 91st birthday.
- Dale Brown won a school-record 448 games during his 25 seasons with LSU from 1972 to 1997.
- Dale Brown guided the Tigers to four SEC championships, 13 NCAA tournament appearances and two Final Four appearances; his players included Shaquille O'Neal and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.
- Dale Brown was named SEC Coach of the Year four times and national coach of the year in 1981.
- Dale Brown was selected earlier this week to receive the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award, which recognizes his accomplishments and impact on college basketball.
- Dale Brown's family said Brown "always put others first," was "a great humanitarian before anything else" and had "fallen in love with Louisiana"; the family added that "the people of Louisiana loved him right back."
- Pete Maravich Assembly Center took on the nickname "Deaf Dome" when crowds for Brown's teams were so wild throughout his 25-season LSU tenure.
Why it matters: Brown's death leaves LSU without the coach who set its school-record 448 wins and produced four SEC titles and two Final Four teams. His selection for the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award earlier that week adds another concrete measure of the impact documented in his career.
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